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euanburton
Helpful | Level 6
2 years ago

Dropbox External Drive Backup - Changing Computers

I’ve just found out when you change Laptop / Desktop you can’t continue to use the same external hard drive with Dropbox Backup. This is absolute madness. If you want to continue to use that hard d...
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Kalak
Helpful | Level 5
2 months ago

It's kind of ridiculous. I have over 8TB of data in backup from an external drive.
Now that I have a new PC, I have to reupload that entire library of data again, on a 20Mbps upload!

Considering just cancelling the Backup plan to be honest. 2 years on and Dropbox doesn't seem to care.

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